Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's *

描述（由申请人提供）：匹兹堡大学致力于妇女健康方面的优秀培训，历史悠久。自20世纪90年代初以来，内科学系包括了内科学中的妇女健康住院医师跟踪和奖学金。公共卫生研究生院的流行病学系领导了至少20年的妇女健康研究，培养了许多科学家。1992年，马吉妇女研究所开始专门处理与妇女健康有关的研究问题。1990年代中期，第一个妇女健康流行病学方案开始实施。1996年，马吉妇女医院和妇女资源研究所被指定为卫生和公众服务部首批妇女保健卓越中心之一。这一任命促进了妇女的健康研究和跨部门合作在大学的进一步增加。为了表彰其在妇女生殖健康方面的出色培训，妇产科和生殖科学系被授予妇女生殖健康研究职业发展中心奖。最近，妇女研究所与兰德公司和匹兹堡大学合作，开始在妇女健康研究、健康服务研究这一代表性很低的领域开展培训计划。拟议的BIRCWH计划将整合这些和匹兹堡大学的其他计划，为初级教师提供职业发展规划的基础，临床，流行病学或卫生服务妇女健康研究的职业生涯。这将由旨在提供跨主题和跨学科互动的学者的综合计划来补充。该方案将通过妇女和农村研究所协调，但研究培训和专业知识将解决妇女健康的所有问题。该方案包括四个主题，涵盖从怀孕前到老年妇女的妇女健康。这些主题涉及所有研究战略的这些问题。根据国际移民组织的建议，我们将培训调查人员解决性别特定健康差异的根本根源，在另一个主题中，我们认识到行为健康对妇女的特殊影响，并在另一个主题中解决生殖问题不仅对怀孕而且对以后生活的影响。最后，我们将培训重点放在对妇女慢性病、老龄化和癌症的特殊考虑上。我们在本提案中描述了匹兹堡大学目前特殊研究培训的组成部分，并建议协调和补充这些活动，以促进下一代妇女健康调查人员的跨学科职业发展。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Pittsburgh has a long history of commitment to excellent training in women's health. Since the early 1990's, the Department of Internal Medicine has included a Women's Health Residency Track and Fellowship in the Internal Medicine. The Epidemiology Department of the Graduate School of Public Health has led research in women's health for at least 20 years, training numerous scientists. In 1992 the Magee-Women's Research Institute (MWRI) was begun to specifically address research questions relevant to women's health. In the mid 1990's the first program in the Epidemiology of Women's Health was begun. In 1996 Magee-Women's Hospital and MWRI were designated one of the first HHS Centers of Excellence in Women's Health. This designation catalyzed a further increase in women's health research and interdepartmental collaboration at the University. In recognition of its excellent training in women's reproductive health, the department of Obstetrics Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences was awarded a Women's Reproductive Health Research Career Development Center award. More recently the MWRI joined with RAND Corporation and the University of Pittsburgh to begin a training program in a much-underrepresented area of women's health research, health services research. The proposed BIRCWH program will integrate these and other University of Pittsburgh programs to provide career development for junior faculty planning careers in fundamental, clinical, epidemiological or health services women's health research. This will be complemented by integrative programs for the scholars designed to provide cross theme and cross-disciplinary interaction. The program will be orchestrated through the MWRI, but research training and expertise will address all issues of women's health. The Program incorporates four themes covering women's health from preconception to aged women. The themes address these issues with all research strategies. As recommended by the IOM, we will train investigators to address fundamental origin of gender specific health differences, in another theme we recognize the special impact of behavioral health on women and in another address the impact of reproductive issues not just upon pregnancy but also in later life. Finally, we concentrate training on the special considerations of chronic diseases, aging and cancer for women. We describe in this proposal the components for exceptional research training present at the University of Pittsburgh and propose to coordinate and complement these activities to facilitate interdisciplinary career development of the next generation of women's health investigators.